SPN 8x19 + some other things
1. First thing, quick fic rec for anyone who might be interested (idk how many on here are into both, but it's so brilliant I have to share): this is an ASOIAF/Father Ted crossover where Stannis, Renly and Robert are priests living on Craggy Island and it's the most beautiful crossover that ever crossovered in every history of crossovers. Seriously. You don't have to be familiar with Father Ted to crack up, though if you are it's funnier. Okay, there it is. You won't regret it.
2. That said, I SAID I WAS GOING TO DO EPISODE REACTIONS AGAIN and I'm doing it. Okay, SPN time since no vampire porn this week.
a) So, I've seen a bunch of complaining about continuity errors/plot holes in this. While I'll agree that Sam finding Bobby in three seconds when it took Cas forty years to track Dean was ridiculous... well, this show has been dealing with plot holes/bad continuity since forever, so by now I don't even mind anymore and other than that I quite liked everything, so whatever. I'll deal.
b) BOBBY WAS BACK THANK FUCK. I'd have liked it better if they had resurrected him tbh, since I always thought that killing him off was the worst idea Sera Gamble had after the Cas mess in S7, but at least we had a decent conclusion and we saw him again and ;_____;
c) Did I say I love Dean this season? Because I love Dean this season. So much.
d) Also: CROWLEY CAN I KEEP YOU FOREVER. Naomi... not. Damn please don't tell me she gets into Dean's head that Cas doesn't care about him because I can't do this all over again. I trust that they won't make us suffer through S6/7 again, but PLEASE NO NAOMI. I CAN'T. She's obviously trying to make it so that Dean distrusts Cas since obviously she can't get hold of Cas anymore, and... nopedonotlikeitonebit.
e) Also, as someone on tumblr wisely pointed out: if the ship was warded against demons and Crowley didn't know where Kevin was, how could he be in Kevin's head? Two cents that it's Naomi or some other angel.
d) THANK YOU SAM FOR REALIZING THAT YOUR BROTHER'S BFF IS A NICE VAMPIRE PERSON.
e) On that: okay, really, show, please I beg you bring Benny back next year, yes? While I'm nowhere near the same level of attachment I had for Balthazar (DDDDD:) I liked the dude, he actually was a good friend to Dean which as far as I'm concerned is enough to give you a pass for everything and tbh I really, REALLY liked that for once they had a genuinely good dude who also happens to be a vampire. This show lacks in sympathetic supernatural beings, or used to anyway, and I just - I really REALLY liked that he and Dean were friends okay? BENNY'S FACE WHEN DEAN CALLED DDDD: I just - I'm having ridiculous friendshippy feelings with those two and I want them being bros and hang around with Sam actually approving of it and and and please show can I have it? D: also: this episode is totally and utterly convincing me that Benny owes a lot to Joshua from Fevre Dream - I thought it first because YOU KNOW VAMPIRE PIRATES ON BOATS IN LOUISIANA in Citizen Fang, but the more I look at it the more it seems like a) he's the basic same kind of person, b) he and Dean have a Joshua/Abner-like friendship.
(on that topic: the moment I'm done with the damned 8x17 coda I'm writing some epic ridiculously crack thing where Benny and Balthazar meet up in purgatory and become friends with benefits and then when Dean goes to spring Benny out Balthazar goes too and there's teary reunions and everyone lives in the bunker and Benny and Balthazar spend time commiserating on how ridiculous their respective bffs are. I'm pretty sure I'm the only person who'd ever read that, but I don't even care.)
f) I liked the taxi driver D: obviously the moment I decided that, he had to be toast, did he.
h) I didn't particularly like Bobby being all like WTF DEAN AND VAMPIRES BEING BFFS tho - okay I get it but jesus come on Dean's had exactly ONE friend in his entire life and that was Cas and tbh I don't think that their relationship can be defied as purely friendship anymore ALL THINGS CONSIDERED like come on Cas is into boyfriend or platonic relationship territory by now, so CAN YOU JUST ALL LET DEAN PICK THE PEOPLE HE WANTS TO HANG OUT WITH D: I want Dean to have all the bffs that he can handle, especially if they don't fuck him over.
i) If anything CAN WE KEEP KEVIN TOO PLEASE. Also: Dean cooking for Kevin was all kinds of adorable and I can't with Dean this season.
l) In conclusion: they could have used a bit more continuity checking, but I thought it was a good episode and I'm veryvery excited to see what happens next :D except that please I don't want Naomi fucking with anyone's head anymore all right? Then again the GOT effect is still on since I feel ridiculously optimistic about everything, so good, please let me keep it. I'm just sad that there's ANOTHER hiatus now D: can we just get to the juicy part? Because the three spoilers I know are so very tasty and I REALLY WANT TO KNOW WHAT HAPPENS OKAY.
3. Two GRRM-related things: seriously. IS THERE SOMEONE WHO READS WILD CARDS other than me in the universe? Seriously, I spent Easter reading throughout books sixteen and seventeen and it's just - so many delish characters and I have at least four otps TWO OF WHICH ARE CANON AND CURRENTLY LIVING HAPPILY EVER AFTER and while it does have the asoiaf realism/angst (as much as superhero books can have) CHARACTERS ACTUALLY GET TO BE HAPPY MOST TIMES even if they get through hell first, and there's canon queer/interractial/interspecies relationships and okay while some parts are seriously WTF or tacky or irrationally gross as a whole IT'S REALLY REALLY GOOD D: and I can't find fic or a fandom or ANYTHING except a forum that is updated every two months, whyyyyy.
4. Second GRRM-related thing: if I have any Theon fans on here who are on tumblr but we don't follow each other, me and a friend on there will hopefully be hosting a week of ridiculous Theon fangirling in mid-May because seriously the hate on the guy is pretty horrible atm and it'll just get worse as the season progresses so if anyone's interested, we'd love to have you. ;)
5. In other news: I spent Easter between despairing over my grandmother (whom I love but the more time passes the more I'm convinced that she'll never understand that life doesn't equate obligatory valley of tears) and feeling like some old person because my ten year-old cousin spent like half an hour speaking about how in his class people get caught for hiding their i-pods in their shoes, can't use their cellphones or *i-pads* in class etcetera etcetera. At which my basic reactions were: 'WHY would you buy your ten year-old an iphone or an ipad or ANYTHING LIKE THAT' and 'fuck when I was ten we didn't even bring our frigging *walkman* to school and we didn't spend time during classes playing Angry Birds'. Which probably explains a lot of things, but still, I'm too young to feel like an old woman and wish that kids these days would just go and read Treasure Island under their desk instead of playing Angry Birds, if they really have to not pay attention.
... damn, I sound like my grandmothers used to sound when I was seven. Brb, getting drunk.
6. I also had a sort of half-high school reunion. Half in the sense that just half of the people were present, and most of them were people I never talked to. But for some miracle it actually went decently, we got nicely buzzed (even if the beer I had was good enough to keep me awake until 4 AM even if the entire thing was over at 2...) and idek, apparently it took five years to get past the stage where people forget how much they used to dislike each other in HS but it was nicer than I thought it'd be.
That said, I'm also apparently too old to get buzzed and then go to bed at five AM because the morning after I woke up at like 11.30 AM and I wanted to spend the entire day in bed.
7. The politics around here are getting so depressing that I can't even fathom it. Not any news, but still, when you think you can't get worse IT GETS WORSE.
8. At least, I found a recipe for strawberry muffins which works like a charm. Now if only I had a chance to use said muffins to charm the Richard Madden lookalike haunting my university who appears in there once every two years or so, my life would be awesome. Again: why don't I know how to flirt? Because I'd have done that three months ago, if I had.
9. In more interesting book-related news, I'm three chapters into Fifty Shames of Earl Gray and it was deliciously hilarious. I'm looking forward to seeing how it goes on, because if the rest is as good as the first three chapters, it's going to be the funniest thing I've read in ages.
10. Aaand since I have nothing else of import, I'll just leave you with this, which is arguably the best piece of live music that I've heard in the last six months that wasn't a concert I was attending. You're welcome. ;)
2. That said, I SAID I WAS GOING TO DO EPISODE REACTIONS AGAIN and I'm doing it. Okay, SPN time since no vampire porn this week.
a) So, I've seen a bunch of complaining about continuity errors/plot holes in this. While I'll agree that Sam finding Bobby in three seconds when it took Cas forty years to track Dean was ridiculous... well, this show has been dealing with plot holes/bad continuity since forever, so by now I don't even mind anymore and other than that I quite liked everything, so whatever. I'll deal.
b) BOBBY WAS BACK THANK FUCK. I'd have liked it better if they had resurrected him tbh, since I always thought that killing him off was the worst idea Sera Gamble had after the Cas mess in S7, but at least we had a decent conclusion and we saw him again and ;_____;
c) Did I say I love Dean this season? Because I love Dean this season. So much.
d) Also: CROWLEY CAN I KEEP YOU FOREVER. Naomi... not. Damn please don't tell me she gets into Dean's head that Cas doesn't care about him because I can't do this all over again. I trust that they won't make us suffer through S6/7 again, but PLEASE NO NAOMI. I CAN'T. She's obviously trying to make it so that Dean distrusts Cas since obviously she can't get hold of Cas anymore, and... nopedonotlikeitonebit.
e) Also, as someone on tumblr wisely pointed out: if the ship was warded against demons and Crowley didn't know where Kevin was, how could he be in Kevin's head? Two cents that it's Naomi or some other angel.
d) THANK YOU SAM FOR REALIZING THAT YOUR BROTHER'S BFF IS A NICE VAMPIRE PERSON.
e) On that: okay, really, show, please I beg you bring Benny back next year, yes? While I'm nowhere near the same level of attachment I had for Balthazar (DDDDD:) I liked the dude, he actually was a good friend to Dean which as far as I'm concerned is enough to give you a pass for everything and tbh I really, REALLY liked that for once they had a genuinely good dude who also happens to be a vampire. This show lacks in sympathetic supernatural beings, or used to anyway, and I just - I really REALLY liked that he and Dean were friends okay? BENNY'S FACE WHEN DEAN CALLED DDDD: I just - I'm having ridiculous friendshippy feelings with those two and I want them being bros and hang around with Sam actually approving of it and and and please show can I have it? D: also: this episode is totally and utterly convincing me that Benny owes a lot to Joshua from Fevre Dream - I thought it first because YOU KNOW VAMPIRE PIRATES ON BOATS IN LOUISIANA in Citizen Fang, but the more I look at it the more it seems like a) he's the basic same kind of person, b) he and Dean have a Joshua/Abner-like friendship.
(on that topic: the moment I'm done with the damned 8x17 coda I'm writing some epic ridiculously crack thing where Benny and Balthazar meet up in purgatory and become friends with benefits and then when Dean goes to spring Benny out Balthazar goes too and there's teary reunions and everyone lives in the bunker and Benny and Balthazar spend time commiserating on how ridiculous their respective bffs are. I'm pretty sure I'm the only person who'd ever read that, but I don't even care.)
f) I liked the taxi driver D: obviously the moment I decided that, he had to be toast, did he.
h) I didn't particularly like Bobby being all like WTF DEAN AND VAMPIRES BEING BFFS tho - okay I get it but jesus come on Dean's had exactly ONE friend in his entire life and that was Cas and tbh I don't think that their relationship can be defied as purely friendship anymore ALL THINGS CONSIDERED like come on Cas is into boyfriend or platonic relationship territory by now, so CAN YOU JUST ALL LET DEAN PICK THE PEOPLE HE WANTS TO HANG OUT WITH D: I want Dean to have all the bffs that he can handle, especially if they don't fuck him over.
i) If anything CAN WE KEEP KEVIN TOO PLEASE. Also: Dean cooking for Kevin was all kinds of adorable and I can't with Dean this season.
l) In conclusion: they could have used a bit more continuity checking, but I thought it was a good episode and I'm veryvery excited to see what happens next :D except that please I don't want Naomi fucking with anyone's head anymore all right? Then again the GOT effect is still on since I feel ridiculously optimistic about everything, so good, please let me keep it. I'm just sad that there's ANOTHER hiatus now D: can we just get to the juicy part? Because the three spoilers I know are so very tasty and I REALLY WANT TO KNOW WHAT HAPPENS OKAY.
3. Two GRRM-related things: seriously. IS THERE SOMEONE WHO READS WILD CARDS other than me in the universe? Seriously, I spent Easter reading throughout books sixteen and seventeen and it's just - so many delish characters and I have at least four otps TWO OF WHICH ARE CANON AND CURRENTLY LIVING HAPPILY EVER AFTER and while it does have the asoiaf realism/angst (as much as superhero books can have) CHARACTERS ACTUALLY GET TO BE HAPPY MOST TIMES even if they get through hell first, and there's canon queer/interractial/interspecies relationships and okay while some parts are seriously WTF or tacky or irrationally gross as a whole IT'S REALLY REALLY GOOD D: and I can't find fic or a fandom or ANYTHING except a forum that is updated every two months, whyyyyy.
4. Second GRRM-related thing: if I have any Theon fans on here who are on tumblr but we don't follow each other, me and a friend on there will hopefully be hosting a week of ridiculous Theon fangirling in mid-May because seriously the hate on the guy is pretty horrible atm and it'll just get worse as the season progresses so if anyone's interested, we'd love to have you. ;)
5. In other news: I spent Easter between despairing over my grandmother (whom I love but the more time passes the more I'm convinced that she'll never understand that life doesn't equate obligatory valley of tears) and feeling like some old person because my ten year-old cousin spent like half an hour speaking about how in his class people get caught for hiding their i-pods in their shoes, can't use their cellphones or *i-pads* in class etcetera etcetera. At which my basic reactions were: 'WHY would you buy your ten year-old an iphone or an ipad or ANYTHING LIKE THAT' and 'fuck when I was ten we didn't even bring our frigging *walkman* to school and we didn't spend time during classes playing Angry Birds'. Which probably explains a lot of things, but still, I'm too young to feel like an old woman and wish that kids these days would just go and read Treasure Island under their desk instead of playing Angry Birds, if they really have to not pay attention.
... damn, I sound like my grandmothers used to sound when I was seven. Brb, getting drunk.
6. I also had a sort of half-high school reunion. Half in the sense that just half of the people were present, and most of them were people I never talked to. But for some miracle it actually went decently, we got nicely buzzed (even if the beer I had was good enough to keep me awake until 4 AM even if the entire thing was over at 2...) and idek, apparently it took five years to get past the stage where people forget how much they used to dislike each other in HS but it was nicer than I thought it'd be.
That said, I'm also apparently too old to get buzzed and then go to bed at five AM because the morning after I woke up at like 11.30 AM and I wanted to spend the entire day in bed.
7. The politics around here are getting so depressing that I can't even fathom it. Not any news, but still, when you think you can't get worse IT GETS WORSE.
8. At least, I found a recipe for strawberry muffins which works like a charm. Now if only I had a chance to use said muffins to charm the Richard Madden lookalike haunting my university who appears in there once every two years or so, my life would be awesome. Again: why don't I know how to flirt? Because I'd have done that three months ago, if I had.
9. In more interesting book-related news, I'm three chapters into Fifty Shames of Earl Gray and it was deliciously hilarious. I'm looking forward to seeing how it goes on, because if the rest is as good as the first three chapters, it's going to be the funniest thing I've read in ages.
10. Aaand since I have nothing else of import, I'll just leave you with this, which is arguably the best piece of live music that I've heard in the last six months that wasn't a concert I was attending. You're welcome. ;)
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